Victoria Park Hotel
VICTORIA PARK HOTEL, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219009
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Park Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA PARK HOTEL, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/03818/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219009
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Park Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA PARK HOTEL, VICTORIA ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA PARK HOTEL, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 20323 70484
Details
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SD27SW VICTORIA ROAD 708-1/4/143 (South West side) 06/05/76 Victoria Park Hotel
II
Hotel. c1900. By Watson and Curry of Newcastle (plan). Red brick, the upper storey pebbledashed, red sandstone dressings; graduated slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 8 bays with 5-bay right return to Oxford Street and 3:3 bay left return to Kendal Street. Chamfered plinth. Pilasters support basket arch to each bay; ashlar imposts, hoodmoulds and ashlar keystones. Main entrance to bay 6 has door and side-lights in architraves under swan-neck pediment and cartouche; covering this is a stained-glass canopy supported by cast-iron columns on corniced, ashlar piers; arched front panel has tracery, radial glazing bars and torchere finial; curved roof with fishscale panels to each side. Bay 2 has panelled door and decorative overlight in quoined surround with cornice on brackets; other bays have transomed 3-light casements; continuous cornice. 1st floor: sashes (with glazing bars to their upper frames) in architraves with moulded sills; bays 3 & 6 have mullioned 3-light windows flanked by corbelled pilaster strips; bays 1 & 8 have single sashes whilst the remaining bays have paired sashes. Angled corner to right with 3-sided window in same style. Rectangular-section fallpipes; rain-water heads in the form of winged beasts. Eaves cornice above which bays 3 & 6 rise as half-timbered gables each with 2-light casement with glazing bars. Between the gables are three 3-light dormers with flat roofs; matching dormers to bays 2 & 7. Angled corner rises as an octagonal turret having cornice and scalloped parapet with ball finials; recessed wooden cupola with weathervane. Main roof is hipped and has terracotta ridges and finials; tall, corniced ridge stacks and front-slope stack between bays 7 & 8. Rear (facing walled garden): 5-bay loggia with slender cast-iron columns and ornate spandrels; 5 blind basket arches to wall on right. Right return: 2-light windows within round arches; 'BILLIARD ROOM' and 'SMOKE ROOM' etched on glass. 2-bay shaped gable on right has scrolled supporters with ball finials and central stack with terracotta panel depicting plant in vase. Left return: 3 bays as front; 3 later bays of 3 storeys with vehicle entrance having keyed, round arch. INTERIOR: dining-room ceiling has panels and ribbons. Cast-iron spiral staircase rises from kitchen to attic. Plans are dated 1898 and differ slightly: the glazed canopy and 3-bay addition to left return are not shown; the octagonal turret treatment differs. The drawing is by Watson and Curry; the application (1899) by Curry and Davidson. (Building Plans Register: 1899-: 4031).
Listing NGR: SD2032370484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388628
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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